Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 2 | I know you 're chafing at the bit , but we do n't want to risk a third bleed from that low-lying placenta . ’ |
| 3 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 4 | She did not want to accept a third coffee . |
| 5 | On a sunny evening you can stay to catch the last of the sun 's rays highlighting Scafell 's famous buttresses . |
| 6 | You may consider presenting the first draft , if it is not too messy , but be prepared to copy it out again if it is not acceptable . |
| 7 | Now , if I 'm prepared to work that hard , why do these young writers think they do n't need to do a third draft ? |
| 8 | Saturation coverage of three-and-a-half weeks of intense campaigning may have given way to non-stop reports of a complicated new chess game — as each main party , neither with an overall majority , manoeuvres to secure the support it will need to form the next Government . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't wait to read the next chunk . |
| 10 | In patients who are symptom free but at risk of atheroma — eg , postmenopausal women ; men over 40 ; individuals with risk factors such as hypertension , hypercholesterolaemia , obesity , diabetes , or tobacco smoking ; and those with a strong family history — one should consider giving the first dose of sumatriptan under medical supervision . |
| 11 | August 7 : The Grumman F6F Hellcat will display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fighter 's combat debut . |
| 12 | THE MEN THEY COULD N'T HANG play a second show at London 's Mean Fiddler on November 30 for the last night of the venue 's tenth anniversary celebrations . |
| 13 | Dick quickly got 15 hours in his aircraft and commented : ‘ I can hardly wait to get the 16th . ’ |
| 14 | The world of everyday experience is three dimensional and to represent it I shall need to add a third basic vector , " out " of the paper . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll need to take the second right after those lights , dear . |
| 16 | How many twelfths would you need to make a sixth ? |
| 17 | Good and how many sixths how many sixths would you need to make a third ? |
| 18 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | SHOULD Portsmouth beat Liverpool in tomorrow 's FA Cup semi-final and reach Wembley , Mike Neasom , football and cricket writer for The News , Portsmouth , will prepare to visit the 95th English ground at which he has covered Pompey . |
| 20 | Applicants for these studentships should generally hold or expect to obtain a First or Upper Second Class Honours Degree or its equivalent in Chemistry or a related subject . |
| 21 | But by extrapolation , I can reasonably expect to find a third of the British insect fauna . |
| 22 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 23 | Yeah negative , right , textiles rise faster , the price of textiles rises faster than the general price level , the real increase in textile prices , therefore , we 'd expect providing the first law of demand holds , that we get a negative response consumption , right . |
| 24 | She did n't appear to mind the first time . |
| 25 | Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it . |
| 26 | Most new pupils in the First Year can usually expect to join the Second Orchestra or Wind Band , provided they are of a reasonable standard . |
| 27 | And I 've got ta get some cornflakes today , my Gary must 've used the last few this morning . |
| 28 | Ms Short said the women 's vote could help Labour to win the next general election provided more women could be persuaded that Labour was sensitive to women 's demands . |
| 29 | Do you want to hear the next line ? |
| 30 | I mentioned some of the problems we were facing and David asked , ‘ Harvey , do your people actually want to win the next election ? ’ |